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Robert Zemeckis to Direct Beowulf Movie

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the new-takes-on-classics dept.

jangobongo writes "Robert Zemeckis, who directed the Polar Express and Back To The Future among many others, will helm a new remake of the epic tale of Beowulf. Sony Pictures is in discussions to distribute the picture. (This version is unrelated to another remake scheduled to be released in 2005 titled Beowulf & Grendel, which is currently in post-production.)" I have no idea which version will make for a better film, but this one has Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary writing the script for it as well.

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  1. Neil by daeley · · Score: 4, Informative

    Neil Gaiman just posted about this in his online journal.

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  2. Two modern remakes of Beowulf? by daveschroeder · · Score: 5, Funny

    That sounds like the beginnings of a cluster!

    *ducks*

    1. Re:Two modern remakes of Beowulf? by BrynM · · Score: 5, Funny

      Imagine all of the bad geek jokes that will go around the IT staff of the production. I'd hate to be anywhere near that render farm! "If you tell one more cluster joke, I'm wiping the drives!"

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  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

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  4. Just imagine... by daveschroeder · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...a modern remake of this epic tale!

    What, expecting me to say something else? ;-)

  5. Re:epic tale of Beowulf by furball · · Score: 4, Funny

    Grendel is an unfinished Java-based mail client.

    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/grendel/

  6. But...? by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will it be done in Anglo-Saxon, or in that sucky post-Norman dialect?

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  7. Beowulf II by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hollywood is a ridiculous echo chamber. After a millenium and a half, they finally make a Beowulf in 1998, after a century of movies, so they make another in 1999. Then they make another two in 2005. They're more "me, too" than Usenet. Ever since the biz stopped being run by gamblers, it's gone straight down the tubes.

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  8. Re:The sad thing is... by Brett+Buck · · Score: 5, Funny

    But those hollywood execs are just working for our best interest! Good story, it just needs a little "punching up" - you know, a few car chases, explosions, and maybe a wise-cracking robot! People like that.

  9. Yeah by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 5, Funny

    Awesome
    cant wait, this will be cool

    Yeah, just imagine it!

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  10. A lot by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yet Another Beowulf movie? How many is this now? 5? 6?

    There's a lot of them. It's like an entire cluster of movies.

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  11. These will be good, but I'm looking forward to... by Rob+Carr · · Score: 4, Funny

    the Mel Brooks version!

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